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Boston Vigilance Committee Poster protesting Anthony Burns' capture in Boston in 1854 under the Fugitive Slave Act
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English: Poster protesting Anthony Burns' capture on May 24, 1854. The text reads:

A MAN KIDNAPPED!

A PUBLIC MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL! WILL BE HELD THIS FRIDAY EVEN'G, May 26th, at 7 o'clock, To secure justice for A MAN CLAIMED AS A SLAVE by a VIRGINIA KIDNAPPER!

And NOW IMPRISONED IN BOSTON COURT HOUSE, in defiance of the Laws of Massachusetts, Shall be plunged into the Hell of Viginia Slavery by a Massachusetts Judge of Probate!

BOSTON, May 26, 1854
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Source The Granger Collection, New York

Retrieved from Anthony Burns notice, Africans in America
Author Boston Vigilance Committee
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